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A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.
Plutarch gives a detailed account of it, with a lively picture of the palace.
His own account of his conversion,, is not detailed.
The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.
" A detailed account of these will be found in the article Canonical Hours.
A very detailed account of such use in the United Kingdom is given by Smith and Sutcliffe.
Philo of Byzantium provides probably the most detailed account on the establishment of a theory of belopoietics (“ belos ”
The most detailed account of Mangonel use is from “ Eric Marsden's translation of a text written by Ammianus Marcellius in the 4th Century AD ” describing its construction and combat usage.
The first detailed account of a Christian wedding in the West dates from the 9th century.
* For a more detailed account of Christine de Pizan ’ s rhetorical strategies refer to Jenny R. Redfern ’ s excerpt Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric ( in Reclaiming Rhetorica, ed.
A highly detailed account of the plot and the assassination is provided by Suetonius, who alleges that Domitian's chamberlain Parthenius was the chief instigator behind the conspiracy, citing the recent execution of Domitian's secretary Epaphroditus as the primary motive.
According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.
" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.
The PAIGC moved its headquarters to Conakry, Guinea, in 1960 and started an armed rebellion against the Portuguese in 1961 ( for a detailed account of this struggle, see the PAIGC page ).
Bartolomé de las Casas shortened the name to " Española ", and when Pietro Martyr d ' Anghiera detailed his account of the island in Latin, he translated the name as Hispaniola.
Holwell wrote the most detailed account for the college of Physicians in London, describing not only inoculation, but also showing that the Indians knew that microbes caused such diseases:
Credit for popularising the term may be given to Arnold Toynbee, whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it.
A detailed but spurious account of Ignatius ' arrest and his travails and martyrdom is the material of the Martyrium Ignatii which is presented as being an eyewitness account for the church of Antioch, and as if written by Ignatius ' companions, Philo of Cilicia, deacon at Tarsus, and Rheus Agathopus, a Syrian.
* 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
( Köstenberger pages 104-105 ) Köstenberger concurs with John Meier that it is highly unlikely for the passage to be a Christian interpolation given that in New Testament texts James is referred to as the " brother of the Lord " rather than the " brother of Jesus ", and that a Christian interpolator would have provided a more detailed account at that point.
Buchanan included an account of how Kenneth's father had been murdered by the Picts, and a detailed, and entirely unsupported, account of how Kenneth avenged him and conquered the Picts.
The electrical conductivity, as well as the electrons ' contribution to the heat capacity and heat conductivity of metals can be calculated from the free electron model, which does not take the detailed structure of the ion lattice into account.

detailed and dry
Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.
These requirements also describe topics like exceptional dry seasonal limits, propulsion, communications and detailed ships design.
The information presented is usually notes about the history of the food or technique, helpful cooking hints, or technical or scientific information which would be too detailed or dry to include as part of the show's live content.
The drama of the developing relationships is supported by very dry comedy ( archetypical Australian humour ) and detailed but understated design.
His work is particularly noted for containing the earliest detailed discussion of freely pivoting compass needles, a fundamental component of the dry compass soon to appear in medieval navigation.

detailed and form
During dream sleep, in contrast, people who are awakened report rich and detailed experiences in which events form a continuous progression, which may however be interrupted by bizarre or fantastic intrusions.
This is a sampling strategy which randomly chooses a proportion of people to send a more detailed questionnaire to ( the long form ).
Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition, and his use of the subtle gradation of tone.
Iron in the form of non-heme iron in beans, sea vegetables and leafy greens is sufficient for good health ; detailed information is in the USDA database.
Both men suggested that tetravalent carbon atoms could link to each other to form a carbon lattice, and that the detailed patterns of atomic bonding could be discerned by skillful interpretations of appropriate chemical reactions.
Hence the SECD machine is often presented in a more detailed form, such as Peter Henderson's Lispkit Lisp compiler, which has been distributed since 1980.
This stage includes the development of detailed designs that brings initial design work into a completed with form of specifications.
As detailed above, some carriers attempted to form a cartel of self-described Tier 1 networks, nominally refusing to peer with any networks outside the oligopoly.
Also, the form of the solution of models based on the Poisson process often provides insight into the form of the solution to a queueing problem whose detailed behavior is poorly mimicked.
The signals produced were detailed enough that a robot arm was able to mimic the actions of Warwick's own arm and provide a form of touch feedback again via the implant.
However, unlike written sources of earlier periods, it provided a much more thoroughly detailed description of the device that harkens back to its ancient form ( Wade-Giles spelling ):
Then, detailed study was undertaken to determine the painting's original form, using scientific tests ( especially infrared reflectoscopy and microscopic core-samples ), and original cartoons preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
Research studies have been conducted in which a detailed examination of handwriting factors, particularly timing, fluidity, pressure, and consistency of size, form, speed, and pressure are considered in the process of evaluating patients and their response to pharmacological therapeutic agents.
In his work, the sonata-allegro was a well-implied ' background form ' against whose various detailed features composers could compose their individual ' foregrounds '; the ' meaningful contradiction ' of expected background by unexpected foreground was seen as generating the expressive content.
Some people believe that the use of social networking sites is a form of " participatory surveillance ", where users of these sites are essentially performing surveillance on themselves, putting detailed personal information on public websites where it can be viewed by corporations and governments.
For example, the Shunzhi Emperor whose full posthumous name is detailed below, would be 世祖章皇帝, combining the last 2 characters of his temple name and the last 3 of his posthumous name, which is the form most commonly seen in old documents.
It is not clear what is the true basis for this perception, but it may be related to the practical necessity of some form of currency to support the specialization of labour, the perceived benefits of which were detailed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations.
The Aozora Bunko resources are searchable by category, author, or title ; and there is a considerable amount of support in how to use the database in the form of detailed explanations.
The second phase is the true candidature stage: the accepted applicant cities ( from now on referred to as " candidate cities ") are required to submit a second questionnaire in the form of an extended, more detailed, candidature file.
GameSpot declared that Pool of Radiance, with its detailed art, wide variety of quests and treasure, and tactical combat system, and despite the availability of only four character classes and the low character level cap, " ultimately succeeded in its goal of bringing a standardized form of AD & D to the home computer, and laid the foundation for other future gold box AD & D role-playing games ".
His detailed and famous Report on the Affairs of British North America ( 1839 ) recommended a modified form of responsible government and a legislative union of Upper Canada, Lower Canada and the Maritime Provinces.
Could form, as necessary, sub-committees and assign them technical tasks, including a northern sub-committee and a southern sub-committee, for detailed management.
It was a detailed history in manuscript form about the founding of the Plymouth colony and the lives of the colonists from 1621 to 1646.

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